TODAY IN HISTORY

Today is Sunday, April 23, the 113th day of 2017. There are 252 days left in the year.

Today’s Highlight in History

On April 23, 1789, President-elect George Washington and his wife, Martha, moved into the first executive mansion, the Franklin House, in New York.

On this date

1016 — Aethelred II “The Unready,” King of the English, died in London after 38 years on the throne. 1616 — English poet and dramatist William Shakespeare died in Stratford-upon-Avon on what has traditionally been regarded as the 52nd anniversary of his birth in 1564. 1791 — The 15th president of the United States, James Buchanan, was born in Franklin County, Pennsylvania. 1910 — Former President Theodore Roosevelt delivered his “Man in the Arena” speech at the Sorbonne in Paris. 1935 — Poland adopted a constitution which gave new powers to the presidency. 1940 — About 200 people died in the Rhythm Night Club Fire in Natchez, Mississippi. 1954 — Hank Aaron of the Milwaukee Braves hit the first of his 755 major-league home runs in a game against the St. Louis Cardinals. (The Braves won, 7-5.) 1969 — Sirhan Sirhan was sentenced to death for assassinating New York Sen. Robert F. Kennedy. (The sentence was later reduced to life imprisonment.) 1987 — Twenty-eight construction workers were killed when an apartment complex being built in Bridgeport, Connecticut, suddenly collapsed. 1992 — McDonald’s opened its first fast-food restaurant in the Chinese capital of Beijing. 2005 — The recently created video-sharing website YouTube uploaded its first clip, “Me at the Zoo,” which showed YouTube co-founder Jawed Karim standing in front of an elephant enclosure at the San Diego Zoo.

Thought for today ‘The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.’ From “As You Like It,” by William Shakespeare (1564-1616)